National Day of Listening

To help inspire students to write personal narratives that were more authentic and emotional, two Jefferson County teachers, inspired by StoryCorps, had students record their personal narratives on laptops beforehand.

Slideshow: The Friday after Thanksgiving has a lot of labels but for fans of the public radio project StoryCorps, it's the National Day of Listening, a day set aside to record the lives and memories of loved ones. In advance of this year's National Day of Listening, CPR brings you a story about how that idea is coming alive in some Colorado classrooms.